Yang Yuanqing: The HBR Interview

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🗓️ 26 June 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Lenovo's CEO on how the PC leader is poised to win in the "PC plus" world.

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0:00.0	If you work with early career professionals, my colleagues at
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0:15.9	Listen for free wherever you got your podcasts.
0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the H-B-Rideecast from Harvard Business Review.
0:32.9	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.4	Today we're going to be hearing a conversation
0:36.6	between HBO's editor-in-chief, Adi Ignatius,
0:39.7	and the CEO of Lenovo, Yon Nunking.
0:43.0	Thanks so much for joining us today, and I hope you enjoy.
0:46.5	We all know that Lenovo recently became number one
0:49.3	in PC sales worldwide.
0:52.0	But I want to ask you, know is that that's obviously a good thing
0:55.5	but you know is that also an area of concern just given that the PC market seems
0:59.9	to have peaked and it's coming down. We definitely are very happy with our number one
1:06.0	position. This was our dream to become the number one. We have never thought about that back to 10 years ago when we bought IBM PC business.
1:22.2	But definitely we know the water is changing. Now it's not a PC-plus error.
1:30.0	So we want to win this plus error. So we want to win in the place area.
1:32.8	So we want to win in the mobile phone.
1:36.3	We want to win the tablet.
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